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OLUKAYODE KOLAWOLE
The business opportunities that have changed the fortunes of the continent and how these businesses are impacting and transforming the quality of lives in Africa... read
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AFRICA
What will the Africa of 2050 look like? Being only 31 years away, Africa's population is expected to double and there will be huge economic shifts...read
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SOUTH AFRICA
VIRUSHA SUBBAN & ITUMELENG MUKHOVHA
The operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement (AfCFTA) was officially launched at the African Union (AU) summit in Niger in early July...read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Multinational snack foods and beverage giant PepsiCo has entered into an agreement to acquire South Africa's Pioneer Foods Group for approximately $1.7 billion...read
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TANZANIA
CPJ's annual International Press Freedom Awards and benefit dinner will honour courageous journalists from around the world... Read
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NIGERIA
LOUISE MARSLAND
Paylater rebranded to Carbon to become a digital financial services platform, going "beyond banking", says CEO Chijioke Dozie... Read
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AFRICA
Over $40 billion in trade deals, participants from 55 countries expected at IATF2020... Read
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TANZANIA
Activists and fellow journalists have been asking about Gwanda's whereabouts for months, including on #WhereIsAzory on Twitter, with no answer from the Tanzanian government... Read
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AFRICA
DR VICTOR OLADOKUN
Fans are choosing not to watch live football events, and instead are opting in increasing numbers for the 'intimacy' of their crystal clear digital flat TV screens, or not all, as recent attendances at AFCON showed... Read
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AFRICA
Major League Wrestling has recently announced it has entered into an agreement to broadcast its flagship weekly hour-long program MLW Fusion non-exclusively in Africa on StarTimes... Read
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UGANDA
Uganda cracks down on social media criticism of Government and the President... Read
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GHANA
SELIN OZYURT
Ghana has recently become the fastest-growing mobile money market in Africa... Read
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NIGERIA
African film studio and international TV network, ROK, has been acquired by leading French audiovisual group, CANAL+... Read
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TANZANIA
Tanzanian businessman Ali Mufuruki has increased his shares in Wananchi Cable Ltd, a company specialising in providing internet access, voice and pay TV... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DANETTE BREITENBACH
The golden thread at the recent Apex Awards Masterclass 2019 was to create a sustainable future. This was the overriding message from the presentations on the days that ranged from gender diversity, creating a culture of trust, identifying as an African, balancing media channels or marketing to the township... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Over 100 international conferences, which are expected to bring over 127 000 delegates to Cape Town, has been confirmed to take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre up until 2026... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
Author Michael Smorenburg took attendees of the Red & Yellow School's first lunchtime lecture of the year post-July holidays on a journey from fact to fiction and back again in describing his personal writing process... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GREG CHEN
After years of waiting, South Africans have been promised relief from high mobile data charges... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ANNE-MARIE LE ROUX
Anyone aspiring to build the next Amazon needs to adopt a similar approach to Jeff Bezos's insistence on an empty chair... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ESTELLE NAGEL
When social media first hit the radar of marketers, the possibilities seemed endless. Finally, marketing would be a true two-way conversation... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JACKIE KALIS
For the retail sector as a whole - and for physical stores in particular - 2019 will be a year of reinvention... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TINASHE ZVAKASIKWA
Tinashe Zvakasikwa offers some ways of defusing interactions with online trolls... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
KIRSTY DUGMORE
Empirically-based studies can help to explain and predict effective communication, giving us the tools and knowledge to execute much better marketing... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ROAN MACKINTOSH
Presenting at the 6th episode of the IAB Series, recently appointed DQ&A commercial director, Roan Mackintosh, explored how to use technology to gain a competitive advantage... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Will technologies like AI mean the end of human engagement and shopping in a physical retail store? Will we become completely dependent on IoT technology for shopping? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JÉRÔME DIVECHA
AccuraCast director Jérôme Divecha offers clear advice to see if AI could help your business make the next big step forward... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DOMINIQUE HARMSE
Marketers are faced with important decisions to make when selecting the most relevant influencers to collaborate with... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
It has been confirmed that Jonathan (Johnny) Clegg, succumbed to pancreatic cancer at the age of 66 on the afternoon of 16 July 2019 at his family home in Johannesburg, South Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RIAN DURANDT
It's been said that in this new digital age, the world's most valuable resource is data... Read
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AFRICA
Sub-Saharan Africa will remain the world's fastest-growing mobile region over the coming years... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Ogilvy SA chief creative officer Pete Case will leave the agency at the end of 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Since 2001, Bizcommunity anticipated the role of company culture as intellectual capital. Biz Press Offices are a "glass box" game changer, offering a window into 18 industry communities... Read
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AFRICA
DR. RUFARO MUCHEKA, ISSUED BY AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS CONFERENCE
As an African woman, born and bred in rural areas, my first real experience of urban life was after I acquired my first academic degree... Read
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AFRICA
JENNA COOK
On Wednesday, 17 July 2019, Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom announced plans to expand e-commerce platform, Masoko, within Southern African by 2020... Read
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NIGERIA
Launched at the start of the year, Naijatastic allows users to stream audio and video all free of charge... Read
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AFRICA
People across barriers of nation, language, class and culture took to Facebook to discuss the AFCON 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SHEREESA MOODLEY
Apple on Tuesday revealed 59 new emoji coming to iOS, MacOS and the Apple Watch in celebration of World Emoji Day... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
Nike's recent run of 'Dream Crazy' ads have won more than just global recognition for their strong push towards inclusion and equality - they're also proving that brands really do make more consumer impact when they put consumer's causes first and foremost... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SHEREESA MOODLEY
Twitter on Monday announced that it is rolling out a web redesign aimed at making the desktop platform faster, "more fun" and "easier to navigate"... Read
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UNITED KINGDOM
A livestream recreating the historic 1969 moon landing was produced by Little Dot Studios, to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on Channel 4... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MICHAEL KING
A global study has shown that consumers begin their retail-related searches on Amazon first, followed by Google... Read
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AFRICA
MICHAEL KITHINJI
Factors behind the hits and missed of the higher education sector in Kenya and East Africa. What need to be done to fix address the problems... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
COLETTE STANILAND
In order to understand where the modern way of business is headed and how business leaders need to transform to meet the demands of the future way of working, one needs to recognise the underlying factors that have brought us to where we are today... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MICHAEL GULLAN
Think of the world's most successful businesses, not only do they pursue growth through innovation, they constantly evolve through adopting modern techniques to upskill their employees. Read
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GLOBAL
As climate change alters temperature and rainfall patterns, yields of some crops are increasing while others decline. The net result: less food, especially where it's most needed. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ELIZABETH SINCLAIR, CHARLOTTE BIRKMANIS, AND ROBERT PEMBERTON
What did we use before single-use plastics became ingrained in our everyday lives? Before the 1980s, plastic bags were a rarity in our supermarkets. In 2019, excessive plastic use feels not just normal, but necessary... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NICCI BOTHA
Entrepreneurial and small businesses have been touted as the panacea to cure South Africa's high unemployment rate, especially among the youth... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The 2019 World's Best Vineyard competition has named Vergelegen Wine Estate in Somerset West the best winery in Africa. The World's Best Vineyard 2019 list has been established to raise the profile of wine tourism... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Department of Home Affairs has announced an addition to its visa-free countries list for travel to South Africa. Citizens of Ghana, Sao Tome and Principe, New Zealand, Cuba, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia no longer require visas to visit South Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TIMOTHY A. WISE
"We need to promote a transformative change in the way that we produce and consume food. We need to put forward sustainable food systems that offer healthy and nutritious food, and also preserve the environment. Agroecology can offer several contributions to this process." Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Experts at the co-located IFAT Africa, food & drink technology (fdt) Africa, and analytica Lab Africa in Midrand this week called for urgent collective action from civil society, industry and the public sector in addressing waste and food and water security challenges... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town comes in ahead of other top tourist destinations in the region like Tel Aviv, Cairo, and Marrakesh... Read
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KENYA
John Oroko, a Kenyan social entrepreneur whose company, Selina Wamucii is connecting smallholder farmers has won the Commonwealth Secretary-General's Innovation Award for Sustainable Development... Read
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Abu Dhabi's new solar plant project has recently started its commercial operations as scheduled at Sweihan in Abu Dhabi... Read
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EAST AFRICA
FBW Group is playing its part in the drive to transform East Africa's logistics sector and boost trade opportunities... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NERILIE ABRAM, MATTHEW ENGLAND, AND MATT KING
A record start to summer ice melt in Greenland this year has drawn attention to the northern ice sheet. We will have to wait to see if 2019 continues to break ice-melt records... Read
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AFRICA
DANNY BRADLOW
Many central banks are rethinking their approach to the environmental and social impact of their operations... Read
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AFRICA
There have been some positive strides made in getting smallholders involved in digital agriculture in Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Fourth Industrial Revolution brings with it a fundamental shift in how we do business... Read
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UGANDA
MARCO BOCCHESE
African leaders often behave in a contradictory way towards international laws, and courts. While speaking out against them, they also voluntarily submit to their scrutiny... Read
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AFRICA
Globally, since 2010, vaccination coverage with three doses of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) and one dose of the measles vaccine has stalled at around 86%... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JULIEN POLLACK AND PETR MATOUS
Someone we know recently told us about a team-building event that proved anything but... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
While fintech and mobile solutions for money transfers have taken off in Africa, there has been a mixed reaction thus far from governments to the use and regulation of blockchain and cryptocurrency... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
"How I Built This" dives into the stories behind growing SME's and the movements they built... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
50 young female entrepreneurs recently graduated from the Future Females Business School, powered by UK-SA Tech Hub... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Investment in technology and analytics is a must if business is going to meet rising customer expectations. This was the topic of discussion at Experian South Africa's annual Innovation Summit, held in Johannesburg yesterday... Read
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KENYA
TIMOTHY NJAGI NJERU
Understanding the political economy around maize production puts into context debates on key interventions in the value chain... Read
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AFRICA
The African Union Commission (AUC) and the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) will in 2020 launch a commemorative book celebrating African women who have advanced the women, peace and security agenda on the continent... Read
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